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The tidewater glaciers that we visit on our our small ship Alaska cruises are retreating. In Maple Leaf Adventures’ 30 years of operating trips both the Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm and the Dawes Glacier in Endicott Arm have noticeably retreated. Here’s a great visual to show you that maps and charts, which are not updated […]

Wildlife photographer Phil Armitage shared our Pack Creek visit with Capt Kevin and our guests, in Alaska in 2013. Pack Creek, on Admiralty Island, is one of the places we view brown bears on our boutique Alaska adventure cruises. Phil made this lovely and informative short video about the first half of the day …on […]

Just received reports via satellite from Naturalist Mary Morris aboard SV Maple Leaf in Alaska. We got going extra early today to make the trip into the head of Endicott Arm to see the Dawes glacier. We knew right away when we were in the inlet as there were lots of bergy bits and a […]

Not showing up? View video on YouTube. To view this video in HD (most beautiful resolution) click play, then pause, then click the gear icon in your video viewer and choose 1080p or 720p. We invite you to view the most popular show we make: the year-end production of the Maple Leaf crew’s best footage. […]

WOW is all we could say when we saw these video clips and photos from a guest and crew on our July 7-17, 2013 Alaska adventure cruise. Enjoy! Learn more about our Alaska Adventure cruises by small ship.

Trip updates from our 92-foot schooner, the Maple Leaf, on an Alaska Adventure . Day One: After leaving Petersburg on Friday afternoon, we sailed to Thomas Bay enjoying our first hours aboard the Maple Leaf. Baird Glacier spills from the northern reaches of the Stikine Ice field on the mainland of Alaska and marks the […]

Some updates from our Alaska Adventure small ship cruises this summer, 2013, sent via sattelite from the 92-foot schooner Maple Leaf, our “cruise ship”. Updates from the July 7-17th trip by naturalist Mary Morris July 7 to 9 – Prince Rupert to Prince of Wales Island from the wheelhouse of Maple Leaf, north end of […]

Grizzly bears, spirit bears and black bears. Please enjoy our collection of photographs from years past and present. Each of these photos was taken on a Maple Leaf Adventures expedition cruise by a member of the crew or a guest, who have kindly shared them. For more information about bear viewing on our expedition cruises […]

We hope you enjoy this catchy 3-minute video made by a guest, who is a professional journalist. It’s from her experience on a Maple Leaf Alaska adventure cruise in 2012. Click to learn more about our Alaska adventure cruises.

6 minutes of beauty and fun, courtesy of Maple Leaf Adventures’ Kevin Smith and Brandon Harvey. They don’t get much time for filming when they are working on trips, but still they managed to capture this great stuff! Thanks, guys. 2012 Behind the Lens Video HD 720p from Maple Leaf Adventures on Vimeo.